BANDSCAN THREAD

Nrgfm wrote: »

Haven’t been logged in much of late but always try to keep an eye on what’s happening, Big improvement from Now Fm this evening, I heard from a friend they were having Tx issues the last week or so and were awaiting some new kit to arrive looks like Santa delivered. Best of luck to them hope it all goes well, I know back in NRG days we had our fair share of teething and frequency issues but when we got there we were sorted hopefully the same will apply to the Now lads,

There is some really good mix s up on SoundCloud from Ger Fenton when he was on Nrg. Talk about nostalgia to listen to. The pure quality and professional of it. 4 years on

If it was "Joe Bloggs Tyres" or "Mary's Barber's" well yeah that's grand. It's a small business. But Odeon Cinemas? No way a big company like that are going to sponsor a pirate. Not a chance. Don't believe it at all.

If I was to guess, one of the DJs works there or someone connected to the station, and they got free passes. No sponsorship involved whatsoever. They shouldn't be using big company names like that just to boost their image. Could definitely lead to big issues.

TallGlass wrote: »

In fairness, if Coca Cola wanted to run ads on a pirate it's up to them. As far as I am aware there is no law against it. They would need to do there due diligence on how it would maybe affect there brand. As much as I hate to say it pirate radio is a 'criminal activity' so to speak. The guys with the big brands wouldn't want the hassle of if something went wrong with the station and been involved. By that same token, some of the legal stations may refuse to take sponsorship as a two fingers to a product running on a pirate and at the same time a legal (highly unlikely mind you). Plus the big brands would be looking for things like rate cards, JNLR figures. They won't part with cash without knowinf they are getting good reach for there brand with there cash.

Off the top of my head, Hyundai did run ads on Non Stop 90s.

It is illegal to advertise on a pirate station under the 88 act.

Will be Intresting to see what all these pirates will do with Christmas fm back on air next month

castle2012 wrote: »

Will be Intresting to see what all these pirates will do with Christmas fm back on air next month

i think most will be fine. 88.1 and 99.5 are the ones that are likely going to need to switch off.

end of the road wrote: »

i think phever suffered some damage due to the recent storm. did they have any audio since friday?

Phever was on over the weekend, yes. On right now - just checked it.

does anyone know, 1. is fresh fm still relaying danceoneradio? 2. has kiss fm 93.2 had live shows yet?

JDxtra wrote: »

1) Yes, Fresh FM are relaying Dance One Radio (danceoneradio.com).

2) No, there have been no live shows on Kiss FM.

thanks for that.

Now FM has the potential to be a quality dance station, and there is room in the market for it. If I could offer some honest (and hopefully helpful) advice to the team, it would be the following:

1) Review the playlist. Remove most of it. Dance classics are well covered - this is Now FM. The playlist should be fresh to reflect that. Don't make it too commercial, leave that to Spin. Only play radio edits. Be different. Have a listen to the stations down in Cork, NRG Radio Cork for example have a great initial playlist. Oh, and destroy Calvin Harris 'One Kiss' - nobody ever wants to hear that tune again!

2) Review the actual quality of the music in the playlist. Studio audio should be as high as possible in quality - buy it on a digital audio store if needed, but always check it afterwards. Sometimes tracks are re-encoded, even on Beatport.

3) Stick to the playlist - most DJs should not need to bring their own music unless they are doing some late evening specialist show. Review playlist content weekly, rotating songs in and out.

4) Make sure all the DJs have presenting skills and are confident on the mic. If there are live shows, make it known. I've heard long periods go by with no links even when a DJ was seemingly there.

5) Playout system - it’s too crude on the cut overs. There are reasonable (or free) options out there - PlayoutONE, SAM Broadcaster, Radio DJ etc. which will offer better transitions for a tighter overall sound (with a bit of work of course!).

6) Imaging - I've heard very little on air to be honest. For a new station, this needs to be more prominent. Spend a few quid here, it's worth it.

The visual branding and social media content are excellent. Radio app is great too. Try and get on TuneIn as well if possible.

Otherwise, best of luck. Looking forward to this station improve and grow over the weeks and months ahead.

end of the road wrote: »

i'm shocked to hear beatport re-encode tracks, i don't buy from them but i would have expected better.

I've bought tunes that turned out to be vinyl rips. Tunes with the end missing and some others that were definitely not WAV. I guess it's not always their fault, they just sell what the labels gives them.

Kiss FM is now gone from 93.2 in Dublin. Easy is now on the frequency.

Not strictly "bandscan" but what is the station on 927 khz on this sdr ----http://emeraldsdr.ddns.net:8073/ please?
It not on the other sdr http://emeraldsdr.ddns.net:8074/
I can't receive it on any radio here .
Regards

There are currently good 'lift' conditions (at least in southern areas of the country) if anyone want to try for reception of long distance FM stations , or perhaps even DAB (the latter probably only likely in coastal areas facing the UK).

Retro FM on 92.0 in Dublin also this evening. Now fm are back on after being silent earlier on today.